The Australian Women's Register

Summary

Jenny Munro became involved with Aboriginal organisations in 1978, when she began working at the Aboriginal Children’s Service as a trainee bookkeeper and then as Administrator in 1979. She was actively involved in endeavours to convince the New South Wales welfare department to change its policies and practices. She was a member of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) in its early days, and one of its first chairpersons.